Tag: plantations
‘Living museum’ will help bring Fiji’s Girmit experience by storytelling
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist
In a significant step toward preserving and commemorating Fiji's rich history, efforts are underway to establish the country's first...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Time to invest in natives in response to devastating...
ANALYSIS: By David Norton, University of Canterbury
During Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle the poor management of exotic plantations in Aotearoa New Zealand -- primarily pine...
West Papua food estates threaten indigenous people, warns TAPOL
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Plans to establish "food estates" were announced by the Indonesian government at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic because, it said,...
Killings, arrests as military ‘flush out’ Mindanao environmental defenders
By KEN E. CAGULA in Davao City
The massive human rights violations committed against indigenous peoples or Lumads and peasants are designed to silence the...
Vanuatu company accused of exporting kava ‘trash’ throws industry in turmoil
By Len Garae in Port Vila
The writing is on the wall for the fate of Peter Colmar’s kava exporting company, Sarami Plantation, now that...